Global outbreak Australia can’t avoid

News.com.au - 05/04
Victoria and NSW are set to smash last year’s measles case numbers and Western Australia has already surpassed its 2024 total in three months.

Victoria and NSW are set to smash last year’s measles case numbers and Western Australia has already surpassed its 2024 total in three months.

The virus is running rampant in every global region but particularly in south and Southeast Asia.

NSW’s top doctor has warned that children being given just one vaccine dose in the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s has left a vaccination gap in the general public.

Through just the first few months of this year, Australia is on track for its worst year of measles since 2019. So far this year, 46 cases have been reported. Last year, 57 cases were reported in total.

Babies are most at risk of measles. Picture: Jason Edwards / NewsWire

To start 2025, NSW has recorded 19 cases – one more than all of 2024 – and Victoria has had 13 cases after 17 infections in 2024. Western Aust...
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